Este estudio estima las elasticidades del tamaño del hogar y su composición por edad, frente a la participación de los alimentos en el total de gasto. Primero, las elasticidades se estiman en relación con la participación del gasto en alimentos con respecto al total del gasto de los...

Spanish Abstract: Con la implementación la Ley 1448 de 2011 se estableció que la restitución de tierras a los hogares que fueron víctimas del conflicto armado es responsabilidad de la Unidad Administrativa Especial de Gestión y Restitución de Tierras (URT). Entre varias estrategias...

Spanish Abstract: En el marco de la reparación integral contemplada en la Ley de Víctimas, la Unidad de Restitución de Tierras crea el Programa Proyectos Productivos (PPP); su objetivo es garantizar la sostenibilidad del retorno de las víctimas del conflicto en Colombia, a partir de brindar...

En este trabajo se presenta el perfil de la pobreza de las ciudades de Barranquilla y Soledad, a nivel de barrio. Utilizando mapas de pobreza, se muestra la distribución espacial de la población pobre, de los logros educativos, de la informalidad, de la pertenencia étnica y de los inmigrantes...

The aim of this research is to assess the homeless’ characteristics in Montevideo, pointing out in their capacity to link with the community. Given the capabilities and functioning framework developed by Amartya Sen, we analyze the multidimensionality poverty and the social exclusion. Even if...

The aim of this research is observe the links between the monetary poverty, deprivation on attachment, and the develop of adaptive preferences. We work with a sample of individuals who have slept at least one night during 2005 winter in the Montevideo's shelter net, collecting socioeconomic and...

This study explores empirical differences in poverty analysis under two distinct normative approaches: income poverty and Amartya Sen’s capability approach, focusing on nutritional achievement as the main dimension to measure poverty in the latter. The analysis focuses on the association...

The usual criteria to measure poverty relies on measuring income. This method has been questioned by Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach. However, there is still no consensus on how to operationalize the capabilities approach. In this paper we use a poverty measure developed by Haveman and...

This paper presents the evolution of family income in the Mexican economy during the period 1984-2004, in which Mexico registered an important structural change. The analysis is based on microdata and inequality indexes. Once obtained the family income, was possible to identify which families...

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 – 2005. A set of results are presented in order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed...